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The Guardianship Accountability Act that Senator Casey and I introduced this morning would further support guardianship reform.

Several States are, however, making significant progress in reforming their guardianship procedures.

I want to thank our witnesses for your contribution to this important discussion about what States are doing to better protect those placed under guardianship arrangements.

Protecting older Americans from financial fraud and exploitation has long been one of my top priorities as Chairman of this Committee.

Many of these recommendations are reflected in legislation that the Ranking Member, Senator Casey, and I have authored, called the 'Guardianship Accountability Act.'

I think Maine is second to Minnesota in voting percentage and I think it has to do with states with large numbers of lakes, maybe.

I think that's an issue we need to pursue.

We are in danger of a kind of slow-motion change of strategic balance, where we don't have a response

Are they being smarter than we are in their expenditures?

We should list interest rates as a strategic risk, because it won't be long before interest on the debt will exceed defense expenditures.

I want to commend the report, the way it's presented, how clear it is.

My sense is the private sector does a better job of their capital assets being online.

I would appreciate it if you could supply for the Committee by class of ships what percentage of the fleet of that class is available at any given moment?

There was some testimony--not testimony. There was a question in the full Committee meeting this morning about the John S. McCain, and it is about to come back into service.

I hope that one of the requirements for all these new platforms is that they be easily modifiable.

I hope that is in the plan.

We are, in a sense, paying bills that have not been paid because some of these platforms are 40, 50 years old.

It would be helpful, I think, if you guys could quantify that to some extent.